How To Play Ganondorf In Smash Ultimate

[@Choctopus]

Who are we breaking down next week?

[@johnnycoolkid1635]

Lucas

[@your_majesty_]

Olimar

[@wayang2905]

Little Mac or Diddy Kong please

[@carsonliebs7531]

Choctopus greninja?

[@sussyyybaka]

Bowser Jr, *please my main needs attention I will buy you a new vase*

[@brachmindunsparce6044]

Tutorial: 1)Dooryah! 2)Goodjob you beat Light.

[@nousername191]

Did you have to do Light like that?

[@sojuronakada2154]

@@nousername191 +

[@baraldobumpa3447]

Best ganon combo: choke and then down smash, almost every time they roll after the choke, works 90% of the time

[@MujihanaDesu]

Ol' Reliable.

[@thatminer7174]

Other options i do as ganon player, if they realize it, use down neutral or down special. Mix it up for back rolls

[@CheeseBlaster]

I do Warlock Punch for get-up attackers

[@CheeseBlaster]

Izriboss thanks for the advice

[@Talonistrying]

Okay, but hear me out Flame choke and then warlock punch.

[@Umbugjug]

I'm ganondorf, A big sword I wield, Call me low tier, And I'll break ur shield,

[@finalbossd]

Julian Shaw That was a brilliant limerick. Well done.

[@geno6149]

Well done ganon probaly approves

[@DavidGalvanwiz]

@@geno6149 I do

[@fearless5490]

Well Done Poem

[@trulythelongestnameinthisc8779]

*you're

[@erictennison4673]

Ganondorf may be low tier but with all that raw strength he just doesn’t care. He will run right through you if you let him.

[@thijmengladdines5344]

hes mid tier

[@HylianKirbo]

@@thijmengladdines5344 high mid teir. Close to high.

[@HylianKirbo]

@mehdi Haddou jokes aside, Brawl meta Knight made sm4ash Bayonetta look like trash.

[@JMproductions7]

Can’t really put a. Tag on ganon players. Either. Button mash. Or. Actually plan

[@The_OwO_Shogun]

Then I won’t let him

[@shrimp8752]

I remember on a wii stage in smash 4 someone had drawn ganondorf's face on a fish body. It had the name "ganondory" underneath.

[@goGothitaLOL]

R.I.P. Miiverse (2012-2018)

[@Alphadog2064]

What about Doriyah the Exploriyah?

[@Talonistrying]

*bold choice of drawing for someone within doriyah distance*

[@shrimp8752]

@@Talonistrying lol

[@orangedude5610]

E3: "Sucks that Ganondorfs Up-Smash was nerfed, the old one was really good" Now: "GANONDORFS UP-SMASH IS GREAT"

[@KalamityKTK]

DecidueyeDestruction56 New Usmash is better in almost every way. It’s got massive range, coverage, still extremely powerful and even fast. Since it covers front, above, and even behind Ganondorf, Usmash is useful for many situations: punishing rolls, landings, ledge options, and even jumps.

[@orangedude5610]

@@KalamityKTK Yeah I know I was joking about how people were saying his u-smash was nerfed when he was first shown

[@KalamityKTK]

DecidueyeDestruction56 I’m aware. I just felt like pointing out why it’s better because I’m a fucking nerd

[@blaster.m1943]

Its the most damaging up smash

[@HylianKirbo]

@@KalamityKTK fun fact: he has the best Up smash, and down smash! and is third place for best forward smash. He also had the best up tilt. He also has the best Meteor smash as well. {The best means most damage.}

[@fakepin3339]

You posted this right before my local and I’m a Ganon main! Wish me luck

[@Choctopus]

You got this!

[@sonic4482]

Best of luck man!

[@johndoe45357]

Go get em!!

[@benc.3244]

Local? Sry, I'm new at Samsh

[@jacksoncassidy107]

@@benc.3244 a local tournament

[@PotatoSoupThe64th]

Step 1: Forward Smash Step 2: Forward Smash Step 3: Welcome to Elite Trash.

[@Rohan-rp3kg]

Thank you this helped very much

[@allhailzamasu69]

@@Rohan-rp3kg i thanked the other guy not him

[@denimdinofan9]

@@allhailzamasu69 ...

[@solomon.riversflow]

Bruuuuhh 🤣🤣😭

[@goof5834]

Yeah. And it is almost uncounterable

[@thomaszander2141]

I’ve found a pretty decent launching combo that does ~50%: -jump into the air (while they are on the ground) and down air them. Works best around 50%, as they will get launched well enough -when you land on the ground, forward smash in their direction (quick, no charge) and it will launch them really far

[@KoopaTiph117]

Guys watch out at 9:49 , Ganon cant "side B" > "front tilt" little mac, pichu and other small characters who are laying on the ground, just a quick node :)) (Down tilt works perfectly on lil mac tho 👌🏿) But for the rest, nice video!

[@leogonzalez6924]

Glad someone caught on that many characters just low profile it

[@DoomsdayMachine_888]

Ganondorf's flame choke, in my experience, can also combo into his down smash. You'd have to time it, but it's fantastic

[@minigungaming5915]

If they tech roll behind, F-Smash works as well

[@archila2765]

U should make a vid where u explain smash terms

[@isaiahd528]

Theres a video I watched a few months back by some guy that did it for Smash 4, cant remember what account it was exactly. If you look up "smash bros terminology" you could probably find it

[@quantumhornet211]

watch izaws art of smash

[@Roserade76]

Sonic was definitely a good matchup for ganondorf, great choice

[@nickmagana3996]

A combo I'd like to leave here is when you down air on stage and hit, you can up smash and you'll hit them a lot of the time if there in good percentage. Most people I've gone against don't have the reaction time to counter it Light 20-30% Mid weight 30-40% And heavy is about 40-50%

[@Leo_Simms]

If Ganon is weak against holy weapons, *Why does he always 2 shot me when I play pit?!? ;-;*

[@sdpr_5]

Or when i play richter and use holy water

[@EllinNuh]

It's because Pit never learned how to *read* him

[@sdpr_5]

@@EllinNuh I see what you did there heh

[@aidanlang3660]

Because pit never learnt how to reeaaadddd

[@aidanlang3660]

I didn’t see the other comment lol

[@ketchubb]

Great piece of Ganon tech, when in top corner *AND FACING THE STAGE* you can often use down-b to mix up your recovery. Don't spam it though, they tend to read it after a few times.

[@pizzawonderer5024]

"Try not to shield too much with ganondorf, cuz if his shield breaks then you're in trouble." Isnt that every character when their shield gets broken?

[@Soulraven2735]

It's more so a problem with Ganondorf because if he get shield broken, he doesn't have that many option to recover, compared to other characters

[@cindymarie3245]

The only character that is guarenteed to die after a shield break is puff

[@mrmoustache1479]

I can't stop hearing Ganondorf saying "BOOYA !!!"

[@eclipticumbra1883]

Try imagining "Doriyah" to mix it up

[@almiightyslvmp]

in his ftilt i hear "prayer!"

[@Phantomwolf115a]

0:44 so what you're telling me is that Ganondorf wears men's size 13 Nikes?

[@tareekellis9583]

is that a fucking tall girl reference

[@Vanilla-Suite]

Hey his life is hard alright, you wouldnt get it

[@Phantomwolf115a]

@@tareekellis9583 it used to be a meme about a year ago

[@WitchofAmethyst]

Ganon's best move is his forward tilt because at the edge you can say "THIS IS SPARTA!"

[@klutz_4348]

Ganondorfs Up B is one of his best edgeguarding tools. It has a lot of range, and offstage, it has ridiculous kill power. And when you hit someone with it offstage, you bounce backwards and dont go into freefall, so you can recover again.

[@smashgambits]

One thing I like to do with Ganon is to flame choke and then read a forward roll. You can just run back a little bit to make sure getup attack doesn't hit you, then sideB again or downB to get them from their forward roll. This will condition them to roll behind you. I never punish the backwards roll until they're at kill percent, because I want them to keep doing it. Then when I get a flame choke at kill percent, turn around and Fsmash them. If you're playing against people who know you'll try this trick it won't work, but when people aren't sure what kind of mind games you'll play, this works almost all the time.

[@azurda7483]

Yep it's really fun to do actually. Sometimes people get really predictable and you can zero death them with some chokes and an F smash

[@mattlavoie2179]

Please bring this series back, it’s actually really helpful and entertaining

[@azuraiis]

Thank you! Been looking for a new main for awhile and I wanted to try Ganon!

[@Ahahashir]

I assume you've swapped to Steve/Enderman?

[@finalbossd]

I’d also like to point out that down throw to neutral air is a true combo at low percentages against most characters. At medium percentages, down air spiking on stage true combos with up smash.

[@Eojgnawkmi]

Just remember one thing and you'll be fine. "DOORIYAH!"

[@monked.luffie4284]

My fav Gannon combo is Side B into down tilt then forward smash. It kills everytime

[@lukerandall1689]

Thanks for teaching me more about my main

[@nikokouk3597]

Thanks for this, I’m a new Gannon main

[@ycleptubi8935]

I would generally say that down-tilt after side-b is most effective unless the f-tilt would surely kill, and up to a certain percent, it is more likely you can follow up in the air for more damage or perhaps a stock. Use it at ledge, not in neutral.

[@peggy_book5710]

You posted this on my bday and im also a gannon main. Thanks for the bday gift i guess?

[@fearless5490]

The recipie for your cake is Doriah, a little wizards foot and The dair Stomp for a finishing touch.

[@thatvalorantkid289]

Looking back on this I realize when playing gandon it all a waiting game

[@archila2765]

This is just what I needed. Can u make one on a lightweight

[@tayfunozturk3445]

In my opinion ganon can be adapted against every player. Depends on your play style and enemy reading. You gotta faint allot( pretend to attack) against really fast opponents. Although he is slow.. you can make him faster

[@charlenflame]

The Stream was awesome yesterday can't wait for the next one!

[@peregrinehawk8363]

Ganon strat: whenever you see them charging the first 3 or so times you do side-b, a good player will start to adapt to that, and on the 4th do a doriyah. Most people just run into it anticipating the side b and die at 50 if they aren't ready to di it.

[@Fantasticleman]

For Throws at low percent: DOWN Throw>Short Hop nair fast fall(immediately after 2nd kick)>Dash attack>Full jump Up Air>(read: example air dodge read= fast fall charge up smash

[@Giranite]

Warlock Punch from the match starting point kills heavyweight at 47%

[@droideka1890]

Finally! An actual GUIDE, and not a TEXTBOOK keep it up!

[@L00D__]

How to play Ganon: Just hit your opponent 5 times and they're dead because that's fair

[@yungyoda4843]

SonicMarioMan 123 3*

[@choooni5331]

Captain falcon: ha you have nothing on me *kills with one move* Also zero is a god lol

[@captainmega6310]

Unless there Pichu

[@mistahdorian2540]

@Jonathan Zheng are you sure about that

[@Soulraven2735]

Tbf, you have the trade off of being ended by projectile characters

[@michaeleverett1376]

I wish Ganondorf had a moveset change to accurately represent his appearance from ocarina of time.

[@jcheung8854]

Long Live the King!

[@SAMACA2023]

“Someone that’s shorter” Me: **cough cough** Pichu **cough cough**

[@naroghin2519]

I think you meant to switch "earlier" and "later" when you were talking about DA. Also crossing up with DA is great because it sets up for sh bair, sh reverse uair, and turnaround ftilt/jab.

[@Macks-bc1gg]

Yay he really made this Video😁👍 thanks

[@ThatDude000]

Personally I like to down throw in neutral air. Something about it just seems so satisfying.

[@ParakeetDSi]

Thank you, now I know how to beat a Ganondorf! >:3

[@Vulkrein]

Aight definitely late but eh, a few things i noticed as a ganon main, 1. If you hit down b from the air and your opponent shields, it breaks like 90% of your shield so it's a nice shield breaker sometimes. Also if if you hit wizards foot at the leftmost part of the foot it spikes diagonally opposite of where it usually spikes to. 2. Down air can be followed up by down b at lower percents (around 20-35 if i remembered correctly). 3. Dash attack is amazing since you can follow it up with either up air or f-air, and even nair at low to mid percents 4. Flame choke can has a lot of viable options to follow up with, as mentioned in the video, jab and f tilt, but u could also follow up with short hop dair and as of the recent patch slightly easier to do it with down smash. 5. If you go past an opponent with dash attack you could follow up sometimes with bair, up smash and if the opponent air dodged away, with flame choke 6. Dark dive is a nice mix up as an out of shield option and several players also use dark dive off ledge comboing into flame choke. 7. Volcano kick sends you upwards if you get caught mid air, and sends you diagonally downwards if you catch someone on a platform, though significantly weaker. Anyways that's just me blabbering, I dont know how accurate what i say is since i just started playing smash like 5 months ago and only picked up ganondorf about 2-3 months ago but eh, it's what i notice and maybe some of you other ganon mains might be able to use this

[@Vulkrein]

Ah sorry i meant to say heel, if you hit aerial down b by the heel it spikes diagonally opposite of where it usually spikes

[@Vulkrein]

Ah and a last second catch up, ganon's toe hit from the up air can send someone diagonally down insanely fast that sometimes it's untechable and it just confirms you into a dash attack or something.

[@tankingwithtigers136]

Love ganon coming from being a bowser main. One hit KOd a wolf on his final stock using the 180 neutral.

[@soniclink-tw2co]

"a whopping 7ft 6in tall...ladies" I died XD

[@finalbossd]

I personally think that dash attack is the optimal move to use out of flame choke, as it covers tech in place and tech roll away from you, but you will need to read your opponent if they are the sort to tech properly. You may want to tech chase them with a flame choke behind you or wizard’s foot. If they miss a tech, you can possibly try to use down smash or forward smash behind you to hard read them. Aerial wizard choke is untechable, but you have a little bit more lagging lag in using it, so the best way to use it is to go for a hard read tech chase situation.

[@justinkimmerle605]

No if you get the read from side-b into reverse smash is just the best

[@funni_noises]

Ima leave this here a few tips for ganondorf when onstage many of his attacks are good at any time but some are better then others off stage forward air is good for stoping them from getting back on stage as well as down air to spike em and remember f smash is a good attack for killing them when they are at high percents

[@funni_noises]

Also if the the enemy is very offensive to use neutral airs and down air works on stage as well dash attacks to n air works well against heavy characters try to be as offensive as possible and pressure them

[@rejonpardenilla]

You could step on Bowser's head to jump further

[@Edwardjflora]

OLD MANANDORF. I just housed two Big Macs and a chocolate shake. I'm about to go online and beat some Toon Links with Warlock punches everywhere.

[@insertreferencehere.8066]

Gannon is just heavy Cpt. Falcon. Neutral B: strong punch Down B: sliding kick Side B: not as similar, but still some what similar. Up B: a jump that grabs and then explodes.

[@petrigaming1448]

i just wanted to say around 20-30% you can also do down air into upsmash

[@kingkrool2498]

Do shulk next please my brother needs it

[@ChristopherMoom]

Ganondorf is a huge Ganondork

[@shfflx5005]

No u

[@jonathanhargraves7007]

Hey Chris wassup?

[@teaguerainwater3003]

He has a huge gannoncock

[@jonathanhargraves7007]

Faster than a big cat? Why?

[@corruptedcheese8]

Nice thing about Ganon areal down-b, if you hit you opponent with the first frame of the attack, it spikes

[@eastplnes5158]

You can actually go with u usual starter by down throw into dash attack into up air then if they are light enough dark dive. Its very good

[@beniciodelgado2317]

You can basically juggle with ganons up b attack because he can still do his second jump after he lands with the up b

[@atheontimesconflux1067]

I always do this: Down air, Down smash, chase them off the ledge, try to spike with down air, if that does not work edge guard with up tilt or do a suicide side B

[@goGothitaLOL]

Peach/Daisy (i like Daisy more) Captain Falcon and Jigglypuff would be nice too, as well as Palutena, Ridley, Wolf, Wario, King Dedede, R.O.B. and maybe Cloud

[@makomarko4679]

Daisy has a bigger hitbox than peach so peach is better

[@brachmindunsparce6044]

@@makomarko4679 nope. Daisy is shorter.

[@makomarko4679]

@@brachmindunsparce6044 horizantal hitbox*

[@brachmindunsparce6044]

@@makomarko4679 smaller height is better because projectiles.

[@jonathanharmeyer2255]

Thank you for helping me start out ganon, really helped

[@greggles5316]

Don't you mean how to forward smash?

[@olimor1]

Ganons side b combos into down smash as well, it’s very effective for damage, but not to knock them out since you usually knock them towards the middle of the stage

[@MapleMilk]

I wish Ganon wasn't evil. Everyone needs another dad.

[@steffenlee3768]

His up special, dark dive, can actually kill of they're at a good percent and towards the top or even upper middle area on certain characters or just high enough percent

[@Cascade7155]

Nice captain falcon guide

[@Fantasticleman]

For a "Ganoncide" side special, remember they can mash out of it at low percent!!!! So, generally this strategy is best at 60% or more.

[@xodanny2955]

I do that ganon side so much its so savage

[@pepsoi811]

Ahhh oh my God oh it's just ganondorf dealing 20 damage with a quick f smash. OH MY GAWD

[@herickteixeira9060]

ganondorf started as an echo fighter of captain falcon, that's why his current moves are basically a stronger version of captain falcon's moves.

[@yaboi_nas5568]

To continue the villain streak, King Dedede pls

[@Choctopus]

I did Dedede a couple weeks ago.

[@shocollo4388]

To all newb ganon players, this was a good guide, but he criminally underated nair. It's SO good for approaching, can be used on shield, it's just an awesome move. Use it for pressure, shields, and alll that he mentioned.

[@ProdSulton]

yeetus deletus Yea and his down special it goes through a lot of projectiles and is a great way to close space on zoners

[@FlipinSneck]

I’m not lying I literally get tennis’ed by link and Isabelle.... a true story on online mode once FROM USING GANONDORF

[@princesscadance197]

I use the g-man here to cheese spirit board battles. Equip a Petey Piranha spirit to make him big, FSmash once, spirit battle over.

[@SpagEddie8113]

I’m here pretty early, but I can still tell this video will be great!

[@17deluxe51]

Belmont holy water vs triforce ganon

[@mikehawk9773]

I always listen to ‘been to hell’ by Hollywood undead when I play Ganon

[@Pretzel_Waifu]

Cover R.O.B. next please

[@king0fnothing]

sometimes i like to combo down throw into dash attack at low percentages

[@RandomThing1569]

I made many spirit teams The most powerful one is GANONDORF2.0 Here's what I used Base:Marx(True Form) Supports:Victini Shine Sprite And Sheriff

[@jordancafer2173]

Could you possibly do Toon Link? I've been wanting to get better with him and it would be nice to have the video

[@SmashBros2009]

Awesome video, glad to see my main in action.:)

[@elijahlukejames]

They really need to bring wind waker Ganondorf into the smash games

[@ccs8847]

Ganon is the villain of Zelda, but the hero of smash

[@numerousfishy2542]

Ridley

[@you-serious-homie]

Up special if you hit someone at the end where Ganondorf spins, it kind of punches them and deal damage

[@plabcentral630]

“Aginst little Mac it’s perfect” what isn’t?

[@materp7362]

Please do a video on captain falcon

[@desmondschneider5397]

Punch is 36%, pivot punch is 44.4%, air punch is 45.6%, and air pivot punch is 48%.

[@fiercedeitysuprema]

You didn't mention any of the extra properties the aerial down special has. If you hit early on in the aerial attack animation the attack has a meteor effect. Later on in the animation it launches upwards if it hits, and the landing has a small shockwave around him. All useful things to keep in mind as a Ganondorf player, even if you don't use the move too often.

[@gabehines2837]

Can you do Ridley in the next video. I've really been trying to work on mine

[@tomasramirez2914]

Easy, just use Nair

[@exquisitebananagaming7658]

How to Incineroar plz Who's with me?

[@benc.3244]

Me. Ish

[@abokoblin2156]

Me

[@creamy5702]

@PewDiePie jr alph*

[@Glyphunderscore]

Rob ia god

[@peanutbutterpikachu]

If I somehow haven't killed my opponent by the time dark dive is at kill percent, I'll use it on platform stages like BF to get through shielding opponents occasionally.

[@izzio6680]

My man rlly made a 15 min video on HOW TO PLAY GANON

[@Vanilla-Suite]

Everyone knows you just doriyah and win

[@unidentifiedmogwai1321]

Spam forward smash and special moves

[@jaypeezy439]

Is that the downward sword attack? I can’t figure out how to do it! Any help?

[@patrickmcgowan1214]

My number two